Explosion Disintegration Effect Photoshop Tutorial

CREATE THIS DISPERSION EFFECT IN PHOTOSHOP!

In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll create our own custom watercolor texture using a mix of Photoshop brushes, dodging and burning, textures, and a photo to establish a base color scheme. After we’ve created a watercolor texture, we’ll mask it to a popular logo and use more Photoshop brushes to create an exploding disintegrating effect that will make our logo look like it’s bursting from the surface on which it is placed for this really cool effect!

Drag that EPS file into the Photoshop and rescale to get it into place

Use the Poly Lasso to create a selection around the center triangle shape and go Layer>Layer Mask>Hide Selection to knock a hole in the center of the play button

Drag the watercolor that we created over into this document and clip to this play button

Duplicate the clipped watercolor layer and hide it

Use free transform to size down the watercolor that you clipped to the logo

Add a black filled Layer Mask to the watercolor layer

Import the Powder Brushes and set size to 1000px and jitter the size and angle

Paint white on the black mask to start creating the explosion

Import the Dust brushes and repeat the process

Import the Explosion brushes and repeat the process

Import Disintegration brushes and repeat the process AGAIN

Import the Dust brushes and set size to 500px with size and angle jitter and paint black on the playbutton’s mask to start breaking up the hard edge

Import and try other brushes and play with both masks to erase or add particles to create the effect

Add a Hue/Sat layer and boost the saturation or shift the hue if needed

Try adding a gradient map layer and add brightly colored gradients to convert to an epic looking duotone image (shift color stops to boost the color attacking different areas of the graphic to get the perfect look)

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Nathaniel Dodson: I am a young web designer and commercial photographer specializing in music, business, and athlete portraiture. I am a young and energetic individual who has been working in the design and creative field since I first started dabbling with Photoshop in year 2000.